Affiliations: [a]
The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA
| [b]
Stout Vocational Rehabilitation Institute (SVRI), University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, WI, USA
| [c]
Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, MN, USA
| [d]
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA
| [e]
Boston University, Boston, MA, USA
| [f]
Handong Global University, Pohang, South Korea
Correspondence:
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Address for correspondence: Wendy A. Coduti, Department of Educational Psychology, Counseling and Special Education, 311 CEDAR, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA. E-mail: wac16@psu.edu.
Abstract: BACKGROUND: Mental health (MH) in the workplace affects employers financially through the increased use of health care, disability leave plans and a loss of productivity (Ritter, Reif & McGuire, 2009). OBJECTIVE: Increases in the prevalence of MH requires a better understanding of how employers can create workplaces that are psychologically healthy and decrease the impact of MH, such as disability management (DM) programs. Understanding how the workplace culture contributes to, or alleviates, the impact of MH in the workplace is critical. CONCLUSION: Disability management programs, combined with psychologically healthy workplaces, are important for ensuring that people with MH conditions have the supports in place through their employer to remain at work, or return to work. However, understanding successful integration of new employees with MH conditions is also important as a supportive workplace impacts the likelihood of continued employment.
